Are Investors Right to Be Optimistic?

1/21/2013 9:35AM

Global equity markets are soaring and investor appetite for risk appears to have fiinaly recovered. But, says WSJ's Simon Nixon, this might have more to do with an excess of market liquidity rather than any real return of positive sentiment.

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